This is from my trip back from the ICA meeting in April. This was down the street from this wash.
Bay setup
Vacuum setup
Hamilton changer and vending
Noble Avenue Car Wash, Florida
W Noble Avenue and NW 5th Street Florida Google street view link
This is from my trip back from the ICA meeting in April.
Front venting area: Dilling & Harris Max-Vend-Master with bill acceptor and an American AC2225 changer
Coleman vacuums
Bay setup
Water Wizard setup and American entry unit install
Water Wizard Preparation – Install day – Rail time!
We hid the rails on the roof of the car wash so we had to get them down today to install (they are very heavy). I rented a fork lift with larger forks, which helped us have a little more room sliding them on the lift.
Hay is for carwashes?
I got some hay at the car wash today. Luckly only one had rope around it to help dump it.
Man arrested for car wash vacuum sex
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,440821,00.html
My Sister sent me this article. The title says it all.
Jim Coleman holding tank
The Jim Coleman unit has a large holding tank to hold water for all the car wash bays. Today I noticed that there is a leak in one of the plastic fittings. Also, the hydrominder is extremely slow letting water flow through, but I will look at that problem tomorrow.
While filling up the tank I noticed their was a leak. The leak was coming from a check valve from the bottom of the holding tank so the water was low pressure.
Albertville Express Wash: Tommy / AVW stainless setup
They got all their chemical and hydraulic lines run in stainless. Super rad!
They also have the largest wall attached light I have seen (1000 watts). My favorate feature of the wash is the shower. Just think: when someone opens a car wash next door you can move into the wash and live.
New car wash / burger joint opens
A new car wash that serves lunch opened down the street from my car wash in Wylam. Not sure where they get their water from, unless it is from a hose from the house behind them?
House no more
It is kind of like someone is trying to clean up the neighborhood? They removed the burnt down house across the street from my car wash. Now there is just garbage from people dumping. So a good improvement!
Neon transformers should not kill you?
Around a week ago I took down some neon tubes and transformers from my Dad’s car wash he sold (they are ripping it down to build a CVS). I decided to test the transformers because my Dad said they didn’t work. I also borrowed a transformer that worked from Greg to make sure the tubes were actually good.
So I take the transformers out of their boxes and observed the connections but I am not really sure how to hook up the neon. I searched around the interwebs and still could not figure it out. The problem I am having is with the ground (green wire) and what it is connected to?
The first step was to find a tube that worked using Greg working transformer. I found a tube which lit up just fine.
Next step: I tried 2 unknown transformers and got the same results, sparky fire looking things and the neon was not lit fully. I then (this was a total mistake) grabbed both ends of the transformer (so the electricy could run all the way through my body) and shocked myself, then the neon was fully lit and there were no more sparks. I did have it grounded on the plug though, the same as with the known working transformer. So are my 2 transformers bad or the ground bad? Not really sure.